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They were not so recently arrived, but that Mrs Toots had caught the baby from somebody, taken it in her arms, and sat down on the stairs, hugging and fondling it.
'My cook's a most respectable woman one of the most motherly people I ever saw and she'll be delighted to make you comfortable. Her son, said Mr Toots, as an additional recommendation, 'was educated in the Bluecoat School, and blown up in a powder-mill.
Toots; and the special point in his character which induces me to linger is the slight touch of craziness that sits so charmingly upon him. M. Taine, the French critic, in his chapters on Dickens, repeats the old remark that genius and madness are near akin.
'I really, said Mr Toots, 'in this house, where whatever was done to me in the way of of any mental confusion sometimes which is of no consequence and I impute to nobody I was always treated like one of Doctor Blimber's family, and had a desk to myself for a considerable period can not allow my friend Feeder to be Mrs Toots suggested 'married.
'Captain Gills, returned Mr Toots, 'whatever you do, is satisfactory to me. The Captain thanked him heartily, and promising to come back in less than five minutes, went out in quest of the person who had entrusted Mr Toots with this mysterious message.
Because they are the two most absurd people in the book they are also the most vivid, human, and imaginable. There are two really fine love affairs in Dickens; and I almost think only two. One is the happy courtship of Swiveller and the Marchioness; the other is the tragic courtship of Toots and Florence Dombey.
I hope you left everybody quite well over the that is, upon the I mean wherever you came from last, you know. All these good wishes, and better intentions, Walter responded to manfully. 'Captain Gills, said Mr Toots, 'I should wish to be strictly honourable; but I trust I may be allowed now, to allude to a certain subject that 'Ay, ay, my lad, returned the Captain. 'Freely, freely.
Quick as thought, Florence glided out and hastened downstairs, where Mr Toots, in the most splendid vestments, was breathing very hard with doubt and agitation on the subject of her coming. 'Oh, how de do, Miss Dombey, said Mr Toots, 'God bless my soul!
It's of no consequence. 'Good-bye! cries Florence. 'Good-bye, Miss Dombey! stammers Mr Toots. 'I hope you won't think anything about it. It's it's of no consequence, thank you. It's not of the least consequence in the world.
To do Miss Nipper justice, she spoke more for her young mistress than herself; and her face showed it. 'But the visitor, Susan, said Florence. Susan, with an hysterical explosion that was as much a laugh as a sob, and as much a sob as a laugh, answered, 'Mr Toots! The smile that appeared on Florence's face passed from it in a moment, and her eyes filled with tears.
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